Android Systems Engineer at OpenAI

Department: Consumer Devices

Compensation

$266,000 – $385,000/yr

Setup: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco, California
Type: Full-time
Level: senior
Posted: Aug 21, 2026

Description

OpenAI is hiring an Android Systems Engineer to build deeply integrated, AI-powered Android experiences across the platform stack. The role involves developing against Android framework and system APIs, using device capabilities, creating agentic mobile systems, building reusable platform abstractions, and owning experiences from exploration through production. It requires strong Android, Kotlin or Java, AOSP, and device-integration experience, and is based in San Francisco with a hybrid work model of four office days per week and relocation assistance.

Required Skills

Android platform
Kotlin and Java
AOSP
Device capabilities
Permissions
IPC

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: Deep experience building and shipping high-quality Android software used by real customers
Strong knowledge of Android platform internals beyond UI and application development
Experience with AOSP, Android framework internals, system applications, privileged APIs, device software, or OEM-specific Android integrations
Experience integrating software with hardware or device capabilities and debugging cross-boundary problems
Understanding of Android ecosystem development, OS versions, device configurations, OEM customizations, permissions, power management, and platform fragmentation
Preferred Qualifications: High proficiency in Kotlin and/or Java and comfort working across a large Android codebase
Strong focus on product quality and user experience
Creative thinking about new platform capabilities and emerging technology
Ability to thrive in ambiguous, rapidly changing environments
Ownership of problems and ability to independently drive work from exploration through production
Current knowledge of Android technologies, APIs, operating-system capabilities, and mobile ecosystem developments
Effective collaboration with internal teams and external platform or device partners

About OpenAI

OpenAI

AI research and deployment

We believe our research will eventually lead to artificial general intelligence, a system that can solve human-level problems. Building safe and beneficial AGI is our mission.

Open roles: 890
New in 30 days: 326
Founded: 2015

Who they serve

OpenAI offers ChatGPT for Healthcare, a secure AI workspace supporting HIPAA-compliant use with trusted clinical search. OpenAI offers workspace agents that teams can create to run real workflows on their own.

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